Engaging the Ottoman Empire: Vexed
Mediations, 1690–1815
By Daniel O’Quinn. 552 pp. incl. 29 col. + 11
b. & w. ills. (University of Pennsylvania Press,
Philadelphia, 2019), $75. ISBN 978–0–8122–
5060–2. |
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Illustrations
Attributed works:
5. Title page of Tableau général de
l’Empire Othoman, Paris 1787–1820,
by Jean Baptiste Simonet after Jean
Michel Moreau le jeune. c.1787. Etching,
36 by 24 cm. (British Museum, London).
Book Review
Historische Topographien: Bilder europäischer Reisender im Osmanischen Reich um 1700
Historische Topographien:
Bilder europäischer Reisender im
Osmanischen Reich um 1700
By Annette Kranen. 384 pp. incl. 13 col. + 173
b. & w. ills. (Brill, Leiden, and Wilhelm Fink
Verlag, Paderborn, 2020), €89.
ISBN 978–3–7705–6502–3. |
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Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Frontispiece from J. Spon: Voyagie
door Italien, Dalmatien, Grieckenland,
en de Levant, Amsterdam 1689, by Jan
Luyken. Etching, 18.9 by 14.9 cm. (Abteilung
Historische Drucke, Staatsbibliothek zu
Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz).
Book Review
Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul. By Ünver Rüstem
1. Iznik-style dish, marked for the Figli di Giuseppe Cantagalli workshop, Florence. c.1890–95. Tin-glazed earthenware, diameter 41 cm. (British Museum, London).
Attributed works:
2. Reverse of the dish illustrated in Fig.1, showing the cockerel mark for the Cantagalli workshop.
Attributed works:
3. Iznik-style dish with scalloped edge and floral sprays, marked for the Figli di Giuseppe Cantagalli workshop, Florence. c.1899. Tin-glazed earthenware, diameter 39 cm. (Stibbert Museum, Florence).
Attributed works:
5. Iznik-style vase, marked for the Figli di Giuseppe Cantagalli workshop, Florence. 1883. Tin-glazed earthenware, diameter 57 cm. (Stibbert Museum, Florence).
Attributed works:
8. Curiosités, by Antoine Vollon. 1868. Canvas, 264 by 192 cm. (Musée d’Orsay, Paris).
Attributed works:
9. The sixteenth-century room at Hertford House, London, looking north, by J.J.Thomson. c.1890. Photograph. (The Wallace Collection, London).
Non-western art unattributed:
4. Iznik rimless dish with flower sprays, Iznik, Ottoman Turkey. c.1550. Fritware painted in underglaze blues, green and mauve, diameter 33.6 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Non-western art unattributed:
6. Iznik dish with peahen amid prunus branches, Iznik, Ottoman Turkey. c.1580–90. Fritware painted in underglaze blue, green and red, diameter 47.4 cm. (Wallace Collection, London).
Western art unattributed:
7. The comte de Nieuwerkerke’s collections in his private apartments in the Louvre, unknown photographer. c.1865. Stereoscopic glass negative. (The Wallace Collection, London).
Publication Received
Architecture and the Late Ottoman Historical Imaginary. Reconfiguring the Architectural Past in a Modernizing Empire. By Ahmet A. Ersoy.
Liturgische Gewänder in der Schwarzen Kirche zu Kronstadt in Siebenbürgen (Liturgical vestments in the Black Church at Kronstadt in Siebenbürgen), by Evelin Wetter, with contributions by Corinna Kienzler and Ágnes Ziegler and weave analysis by Corinna Kienzler